PaintCOST Estimator for Excel

Painting estimating can be tough and time consuming. If not done properly, it can be inaccurate, too. As a painting contractor or cost estimator, you want to know the accurate cost of painting work in a project.

Our PaintCOST Estimator for Excel is the most effective, time-saving and complete painting estimator in the market today. You can now work in a single MS Excel environment to quickly create, build, and manage your cost estimates. Experience the built-in Space Calculator. Figure Material and Labor prices. Utilize built-in reporting or use Excel's reporting functions. It's all in one complete, integrated solution.

Space Calculator

PaintCOST Estimator's Space Calculator quickly figures out areas including cutoffs and addons such as doors, windows, closets. It does the mundane work so you don't have to. With that, you can use or easily override suggested calculations. A logical approach to a tedious problem.

Powerful and Easy to Use

Designed for Microsoft Excel and improving on its capabilities, PaintCOST Estimator is contained completely within an Excel file with several worksheets. All you have to do is to open your MS Excel program, then open the PaintCOST Estimator Excel file. Create your estimate then print reports. It’s that easy.

Because it's easy-to-use and intuitive, you can can generate a complete estimate within minutes. An estimate that accurately includes walls, ceiling, floors, trims, baseboards, doors, windows, special items and more.

PaintCOST Estimator computes material and labor costs and allows for user entries such as job and billing information, progress payment schedule, included and excluded work. Additionally, all cost data is user modifiable, too.

PaintCOST Estimator generates instant, on-screen reports including estimate summary, estimate detail, estimate labor hours and bid quotation which is a formal document suitable for sending to customer for signup. That's real convenience. Click a button to print or format as you would format any MS Excel spreadsheet file. You can use Excel's powerful data saving and exporting tools for managing and distributing your estimates in electronic format as email attachment.

Key Benefits

• MS Excel based estimating
• Customizable, built-in unit cost data for material and labor
• Built-in Space Calculator
• Computes Material and Labor costs
• Estimate Labor manhour report for easy scheduling
• Formal bid quotation generated automatically
• Incorporates user-defined progress payment schedules
• Summary and Detail reports including Price Quotation
• Automatically creates buylist for material purchasing
• Automatically inserts your company logo to Quote report
• Comprehensive Online Help system
• Step by step tutorial for easy learning

System Requirements

• Personal computer running under Windows XP/Vista/Win7/Win8
• Microsoft Excel 2000-12 (32-bit MS Office installation)
• Compatible printer